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Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Old buildings

I've been playing with an "app" on my phone (adding filters) and these photos I took around Graemsay. I think the "distressed" look somehow adds something to the photos. It seems to awaken the history within the stones themselves, a blurring between past and present. Hope you like them! Above is the croft of Dean.

Spot and "distressed" Button. Ha!

The gable end of an old stone house, with Stromness in the background.

The same house, end on. This is at Sandside, right on the shore. With coastal erosion that gable end may soon be RIGHT on the shore.

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Welcome to my blog which is about life on Graemsay (population approx 23), one of the smaller of the Orkney islands off the North of Scotland (UK). Life is quiet here so I don't always write daily but try to post several entries a month. Enjoy your browsing around the island.....

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.William Blake